Hanfeizi · 五蠹第四十九
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世異則事異
When the age differs, its affairs differ.
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荊文王恐其害己也，
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故文王行仁義而王天下，Follow an explicit inference ↗故文王行仁義而王天下，Read the relationship between clauses ↗是仁義用於古不用於今也。Locate a relation ↗是仁義用於古不用於今也。Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 王 × 4 仁 × 3 義 × 3 文 × 2 其 × 2 也 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Argument contrastTwo ways to question inherited authorityHanfeizi makes changed circumstances a reason to reconsider practices. Mencius challenges unqualified acceptance of a particular received text. The comparison concerns how a reader evaluates inheritance; it does not make their standards of judgment identical.
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孟子 · 萬章下其害己也？」孟子曰：「其詳不可得聞也，諸侯惡其害己也，而皆去其籍；然而軻也嘗聞其略也。
荀子 · 富國篇第十而喪其國夫是之謂至貧，是愚主之極也。將以求富而喪其國，將以求利而危其身，
孟子 · 盡心上而王天下孟子曰：「君子有三樂，而王天下不與存焉。父母俱存，兄弟無故，一樂也；仰不愧於天，俯不怍於人，二樂也；
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論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Follow a condition and its consequence行有餘力，則以學文論語 · Follow a condition and its consequence過則勿憚改論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 韓非子 · Hanfeizi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3c0005 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_049.txt, lines 197–207. HF 49.04:02; jiaoshi 33; jishi 1041; jiaozhu 664; shiping 1704; Watson 99
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